The assassin of Halle had Hitler's "Mein Kampf" on the PC

On hard disks of Halle assassin investigators have found after SPIEGEL information National Socialist propaganda material. Also a video of the Christchurch attack was stored on the PC.

In the evaluation of hard disks of the double murderer Stephan Balliet investigators have come across pertinent, Nazi propaganda material. Among other things, the investigators discovered after SPIEGEL information files with Hitler images, swastikas and a PDF document with Hitler's anti-Semitic hate "Mein Kampf". In addition, there were videos with drastic violence and a recording of the anti-Muslim massacre of Christchurch with 51 dead.

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The 27-year-old Balliet had tried on October 9 to storm a synagogue in Halle during the Yom Kippur worship to kill the believers gathered there. After his attempt to invade the church, he shot dead two people in the area and injured other people with gunfire on his escape before he was arrested. Before the investigating judge, he described himself as a failure and anti-Semites.

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